Some people got option to move to San diego
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Last poster - what's your take on Boulder then?
3kzn you are a total jerk.
Moving offices within town is not the same as moving them across the country.
Massive workplace moves are more about employees who you certainly want to retain and not about boxes full of stuff and lab benches.
Boulder labs and offices have been moved a couple of times already, from the old original building, to the Ball Aerospace campus, to the Q campus, and a lot of reshuffling when Infrastructure was sole to Ericsson.
Closing Boulder and moving here to SD is not that difficult.
You're definitely right. There's a lot of reasons why it would be hugely detrimental to close these locations. Laying off employees is also -costly- but closing an entire campus is a whole other cost, as it includes people from HR, marketing, clerks, janitors, security, the works. Not to mention all the hardware has to be transported back to SD and any employees relocated too.
Sure it might be in 'talks,' but it's more or less a 'whatif' rather than an actual sensible option.
There's some serious bs here same as on the other thread about Raleigh!
tliv- just repeating what I heard. Have heard many times the engineers are excellent.
Boulder site has strategic partners? Aren't all kinds nds of higher levels of management conducted from California sites?
I heard the problem wasn’t the engineers in Boulder. Execs want to pull it in to SD for better oversight and management after complaints and concerns from strategic partners were validated.
Nearly all the work in Boulder falls under QCSS. Meaning they all have clearances which are lengthy and expensive. Shutting down the entire site would be stupid. The engineers Boulder I have worked with are brilliant as in smarter than the ones in SD. I HIGHLY doubt a blanket layoff of the entire site is in the cards.
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado,
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below,
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound,
But I'm still around, I'll always be around...
Server is not at a critical stage, in fact it is at a stage right now where if you are going to move it, now is the time.
Any real customers for server yet?
Datacenter server chip is not the one I see as strategic.. it's already a super mature market with low margin high volume
On top of this Qualcomm does not bring anything radical but small improvements
Big customers like Amazon Google Microsoft word love to see qcom server chips so that they can hedge against intel and pit Intel and qcom against each other for better price
I only heard about Boulder. New Jersey and Austin have lean budgets. Boulder is supposedly to be closing by end of FY18.
Boulder does have more than one team working on server. Which is as you know is a forward looking and critical project. Don't forget that!
Boulder has no projects that are at a critical stage, that can't be moved.
Two years ago wildcat saved some jobs in Boulder, I doubt it will this time.
I have no idea if Boulder is getting shut down, but it wouldn't surprise me.
That being said you would have to be a fill to leave Boulder for San Diego right now.
Boulder hardly have 4-5 positions open.
Boulder wouldn't be closing if it had outstanding job positions. Specifically positions that say -Only available at BOULDER location.- This post is 100% fear monger.
Some sites are closing per the high level rumor mill. Gonna be grim April.
Op who the F are you?? People on this forum have gone so F'in crazy they are asking doomsday questions.
Chill...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many more F'in locations will you add to the "closure" list?
It's about time.... All what it is , shop for project shop. Good buy
Actually two years ago there were talms to entirely shut down boulder and severL other smaller offices. Shut down was ultimately replaced by a substantial layoff insteaf. So i wont be surprised if they are raising thos possibilty again. Would be sad though, there are some great engineering brains there!
In Boulder and can confirm this is bs.
HAHA YOURE TOO LATE OP. BOULDER SHUT DOWN TWO YEARS AGO!!
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/ISUwuTr
Confirmed
Good thing weeds available in SD making the transition easy.